With the accreditation of Denmark’s ambassador in Peking to Cambodia, diplomatic relations resume. While the timing puzzles observers, Denmark has business interests in an antibiotics factory in PhnomPenh and wants to be “a bridge between the west & the world’s radical regimes”

The Swedish parliament vetos a proposal to provide aid to Cambodia. The governing Social Democrats say Cambodians suffer and need aid, regardless of their government’s actions. The opposition said “the brutality of the [Khmer Rouge] government makes effective aid impossible”.

.@BangkokPostNews runs an @AFP story of a refugee who was an informer for the Khmer Rouge and in return was given the privilege to live with his family. He said people were killed by the KR for refusing to work. And that the liver was extracted of bodies to make medical cures. https://t.co/StOGHhmPAW @nytimes’ Sulzberger worries about Sihanouk, who is now a “virtual prisoner of the regime”. He is permitted no contacts outside his family & guards as the Khmer Rouge fear him rallying resistance to the regime. It is said the he will never be permitted to leave Cambodia alive.

A. Lewis writes in @nytimes that a year after the Mayaguez affair the initial cheers have mocking echoes. The heavy costs for the American action – casualties in lives, truth, diplomacy and law would have been avoided, had the US allowed the Khmer Rouge a modest response time.

Vietnam and Cambodia begin preparatory talks to negotiate a border treaty in June. Khmer Rouge FM Ieng Sary is not up for concessions on the sea border, but he also doesn’t want an open conflict with Vietnam. So he emphasises solidarity. The June summit will never take place. https://t.co/SXQydTlDRq

@2062Yun @AFP Its hard to say but quite likely that the AFP piece refers to Gen. Sek Samiad, former gov of Battambang. https://t.co/TngcynKqTL Or maybe to the same resistance as this Newsweek article, which names a French-trained Cambodian army veteran called Rithysak. https://t.co/7fd0ZPcrFO 10. Cambodia establishes diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level with Burma (24 April 1976) and Malaysia (30 April) 9. Fine arts students Chnay was arrested in early April after the Khmer Rouge asked educated people to come forward and help the regime by returning to their former occupations. They were brought to a rice mill, roped together in groups of 10 and interrogated: https://t.co/QHD31rR1Uw 5. Sihanouk’s resignation is announced…

.@nytimes journalist Schanberg is awarded the Pulitzer price for his coverage “at great risk” of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia. He accepted it “on behalf of myself and my Cambodian colleague, Dith Pran, who had a deep commitment to the story and stayed to cover it” https://t.co/sQ1kEZ67Bx

Children from Vietnam and Cambodia who have been adopted by Australian parents celebrated the end of the Vietnam war which was 12 months ago yesterday. The children celebrated with a concert at Sydney’s Grace Bros Broadway Store and a picnic at the Botanic Gardens. ©@getty https://t.co/JpLwgS7yx3

Kuon, 31 years old, who along with Chinese technicians also worked as a flight trainer for the Khmer Rouge said he is going to apply for asylum in France. onthisday https://t.co/NXHZe7qkkL Kuon said he had been planing his escape “for the last 2 years”. He named Saloth Sar (Pol Pot) as the most powerful Khmer Rouge leader and said Sihanouk was considered to be “Enemy Nr 1.” He said the KR kiled virtually all the rich, civil servants & members of the old army” 2/2 Lt Pech Kuon, a former Khmer Republic airforce pilot, who bombed Lon Nol’s palace in 1973 (pictured after the bombing), then defected to the Khmer…

@keikokit Thank you for sharing Keikokit! I would love to read Naoki’s book. Could you tell us a little bit about it and what he said about his experience with the Khmer Rouge? Bernard Levin writes in @BangkokPostNews that Cambodia is “the first country to be transformed into a concentration camp in its entirety” He laments the lack of condemnation by @UN and the absence of demonstrations protesting against the murderers and tyrants of the Khmer Rouge